On 9 August 2012 18:02, Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm at heeg.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> most of you have probably heard of the Rasperry Pi ARM-based small/cheap computer. It is intended to be used in
> education, and so running Scratch (and of course Squeak/Pharo) on it would be nice. Currently, the debian distro
> available for it includes the original Linux interpreter VM, which together with the very moderate speed of the Raspi
> results in pretty awful performance (I did not try it myself, just heard about it).

Well, I didn't expect it to be fast. I was just happy that it worked
at all, which it did (of course!).

> I don't have a Raspi yet (figured I've got too little spare time to order one), but maybe someone else has got one?
> With the ARM Cog VM developed in Lars Wassermann's GSOC project, I have real hope for a VM that would run with
> acceptable speed on that little computer.
>
> What do folks think about it?

I am more than happy to sign up to being a beta tester for the ARM Cog VM.

frank

> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin
>